I have an 80GB HD it is C:ok, my pooter boots up on C I have xp sp2 on that drive and FS9 and other stufI'm getting a WD 250GB HD and plan to make that B:now, here is what I want to do.reformat B right away and put a clean install of win xp sp2 on it, then make that my bootable drive.then can I uninstall win xp on my old C drive and still have FS9 work? or not?basically I want to get rid of everything on my old C drive - make that nothing but FS9 and then my new B drive I want that to be FSX and all my other stuff. (win xp, my boottable disk, etc)is there a catch to doing this? or not - it seems straight forward to me but just wanted to check.and yes, I know I'll have to change my bios settings and all that, but aside from that...ciao!Brian S

First of all, two things:1) probably when you format, it will not allow you to set it up as drive B: (well, you can, but it's not worth the trouble). B: is what we used to use for floppy drives in DOS and generally that convention is followed by the Windows partitioner. Assuming you have a CD/DVD drive, it will make it E:, if your C: drive is still physically installed in the box.2) related to #1, if it were me, I would physically disconnect your existing 80 gigger. Then hook up the new 250 gigger, format it, install WinXP on it, and it will be your new C: drive.3) Windows likes to be installed on the C: drive. I strongly strongly suggest you do it that way, unless you want problems. Disconnect your existing drive and install the OS on your new drive.4) later, after you're getting good boots from your new OS, hook up your old hard drive. It will be recognized as E: (or maybe something else depending on what drives you have)Most modern BIOS setup screens allow you to set which drive you want to boot from.Once you have the 250 gig as your C:, and your 80 gig as E:, I do not think you should have any issues manually deleting the old OS files on E:. I would NOT run the windows uninstaller on the E: drive. It may get confused, and think you are wanting to uninstall the OS on the C: drive.There should be no issues in stopping you from manually deleting old OS files, once you are up and running on your new hard drive, and that includes the old paging file which will exist on your old hard drive.That should free up a lot of space for FS things. You are doing a good thing by having FS on a separate physical drive.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2585 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2gb Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8 (1T), WD 150 gig 10000rpm Raptor, WD 250gig 7200rpm SATA2, Seagate 120gb 5400 rpm external HD, CoolerMaster Praetorian

"then can I uninstall win xp on my old C drive and still have FS9 work? or not?"FS9 will not work as the "new" registry on the "new" HD will not have the FS9 registry entries. You'll have to reinstall FS9.Ciao,Jim

maybe I didn't make myself clearI want my 250 gig to be win xp and fsx and all my other games and crap.I want my 80 gig to be fs9 only.oh yes, I missed it, there is an E: opening, I have a smartmedia card thingy installed and I THOUGHT it went from E to I but it goes from F to J or whatever, so yes E is open, I really like the suggestion of pulling out my 80 giger completely then installing winxp sp2 and all that crap on that as C - very good advice, thanks. then I stick my old 80 giger in as E now, one thing confused me a bit, the page file, what is this? - can you explain it to me ??ciao!Brian S

>>now, one thing confused me a bit, the page file, what is this?>- can you explain it to me ??Don't worry about that. It's just something that goes with WinXP and aids the OS in memory management. I only mentioned it as an aside, because the page file is usually very large (several gigs) in size and deleting it off your old drive will free up a lot of space for FS add-ons.Once you have installed your new WinXP on your new hard drive, you'll be able to delete the old winxp install on the 80 gig drive, and that includes the big page file.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2585 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2gb Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8 (1T), WD 150 gig 10000rpm Raptor, WD 250gig 7200rpm SATA2, Seagate 120gb 5400 rpm external HD, CoolerMaster Praetorian